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According to Toyota Australia's statement for the C-HR recall, on the 24th November 2017 they are posting out a letter of notification to all affected C-HR owners.

It pretty much impacts all Australian C-HR owners that had their vehicle built prior to 10th October 2017.

Fortunately this recall fix is fairly simple and does not require any mechanical work to be done to the car or its electronic park brake. Toyota service centre's will only require to update the vehicle's software (via the connector under the bonnet release latch) in order to reprogram the Skid Control ECU. Should take around 30 mins or so.

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Julian.

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Fortunately this recall fix is fairly simple and does not require any mechanical work to be done to the car or its electronic park brake. Toyota service centre's will only require to update the vehicle's software (via the connector under the bonnet release latch) in order to reprogram the Skid Control ECU. Should take around 30 mins or so.

My C-HR was built in June 2017, just over 6 months after initial production began in Japan in December 2016. So I would have expected that they would have sorted out all the 'bugs' by the time my C-HR was built.

Fortunately this recall is a simple fix that only requires reprogramming of the Skid Control ECU, and does not involve any mechanical work to be done to the vehicle or its electronic park brake.

I haven't received my recall letter as yet too. I think Toyota Australia is posting these letters out progressively in batches based in order of VIN number or when the vehicle was sold, and not posting out to all 4800 C-HR owners at once, otherwise Toyota service centres would be inundated in one hit to fix all these vehicles as opposed to spreading out the recall fix over several months.

My plastic cover looks exactly the same as your photo and I haven't even had my car go in for the recall yet. My car was built in June 2017.

The one in the photo is the original, but it sounds like cars earlier in the production run didn't come with this as standard. I'm also June 2017. So the recall for me was software patch, anyone earlier will also get the new cover which sounds like they would have done at first service anyway.

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That is the difference between the original design team and the follow-up hazard removal team. I expect that the original design team considered the design from a human factors perspective and ease of removal for racing as opposed to the engineering risk of someone placing items in the hole rendering the brake switch ineffective. We live in a world where the lowest common denominator has to be factored in at all levels.